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Suffering and the vulnerable rule of God : a feminist epistemology / Kathleen McManus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McManus, Kathleen Anne, 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Suffering.
- Feminist theology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Fortress Academic, 2022.
- Summary:
- Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx's method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God's vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Note
- Part I: Overture to The Bent-Over-Woman, Standing Up Straight
- Chapter 1: The Mysticism of Resistance: The Global Suffering of Women as an Ethical Imperative for the Church
- An Encounter among Women in Lima
- Seeing the Reality, Describing the Situation of Oppression
- Analysis: Causes of Oppression
- The Mysticism of Resistance
- Signs of Resurrection
- Notes
- Part II: Experience and Revelation
- Introduction to Part II
- Chapter 2: Women Fermenting Impasse
- The Current Ecclesial Context
- "Really Bad Theology" and Women's Critical Communities
- Women Suffering Impasse
- Experiences of Negative Contrast: Dark Light Illumining a Way Forward
- Negative Contrast and the Via Feminina
- Spiritual Suffering as Ferment in Impasse
- Critical Communities of Resistance and Hope
- Critical Women's Communities, the Mysticism of Resistance, and Ecclesial Transformation
- Chapter 3: The Spiritual Suffering of LGBTQ+ People and People of Color
- Chapter 4: Race, the Reign of God, and the Catholic Church
- Current U.S. Context
- Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement in Light of Vatican II
- Widening the Lens: Racial Terrorism and Immigration
- The Specificity of Black Suffering
- The Race/LGBTQ+ Nexus
- Conclusion
- Part III: Sequela Jesu
- Introduction to Part III
- Chapter 5: Encounters on the Periphery: Revealing the Reign of God
- The Reign of God
- "Encounter" as Theological Category
- Revelation: Experience, Faith, and Knowing
- Revelation-in-Resistance
- Epistemologies of the Marginalized
- The Body as Revelatory47
- The System of Coordinates of Human Salvation
- Implications
- Sequela Jesu: Encountering the Vulnerable Rule of God
- Notes.
- Chapter 6: Creation, the Spirit, and the Church's Ethical Imperative
- Salvation and Healing of the Threatened Humanum in the Context of Creation
- Challenges This Imperative Poses to the Church
- Fear of the "Other"/Fear of Equality
- Heresy in History
- In Search of Unity
- Turning to the Spirit
- Spirit in the Old Testament
- Spirit in the New Testament
- Spirit Neglected in the Church and in the World
- Spirit Unbound
- An Anthropology of Vulnerability as Lived Creation Faith
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-2060-2
- 1-9787-0151-9
- OCLC:
- 1501679465
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